Improvement in cloth-steaming apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH-STEMING APPARATUSl Specification forming part of Letters Patent o. 115,520, dated May 23, 187i.

. is admitted, the steam escaping therefrom through perforations in the Shell of the cylinder 5 the invention consisting in a certain novel arrangement for securing tight joints between the cylinder and the pipes which supply it with steam; and, also, in a novel arrangement of the wrapper that incloscs the roll of cloth.

Referring to the drawing, a is the hollow perforated cylinder, the same having a head, b, throughwhich, also, the bore of the cylinder runs. d is the main steam-pipe, and d1 are two branches of the same, extending one up,-

`ward, the other downward, both branches being horizontal at d2, and terminating, the upper one in a downwardly-projectin g nozzle, d3, and the lower one in an upwardly-projecting nozzle, d4. e is a horizontal shoulder on the lower pipe d1 at the base of the nozzle d4. e' is a rubber packing surrounding the nozzle d4 and resting on the shoulder e. f is a block that slides on the nozzle d3, and f is a packing placed below and secured "to the said block. The nozzles d3 d4 are of a size to fit closely within the ends of the cylinder a, which, when placed-between them, is necessarily held plays on the latter above the block f.

in a vertical position. A lever, g, pivoted at one end to any suitable support, and bearing an enlargement, g', through which is made an orice that the upper nozzle passes through, When the cylinder a is in place, with the roll of cloth on it, a weight, h, may be hung upon the outer end of the lever g, which weight presses the block f and its packing f down upon the head b, and also presses the lower end of the cylinder down upon the packing c', thus securing` When the cloth has been thus sufficiently steamed, if the Steam be shut j steam-tight joints.

oi' and cold water allowed to enter the cylinder through the pipes d all, the roll will be quickly cooled and the luster set;77 the use of cold water in this manner greatly expediting the finishing of the cloth. i

My improved wrapper consists of a bandage, i, of any suitable material, wound spirally around the roll so as to hold evenly every part of it under the pressure 'of steam. Heretofore the wrapper has been wound straight around the roll and tied by strings. A wrapper thus secured does not hold the cloth evenly, and, moreover, the Strings leave marks in the cloth which diminish its value. With the-spiral wrapper no strin gs. are required. l

I claim as my invention* 1. The cylinder a, provided With the head b, and combined with the pipes d1, packings e' f block f, and lever g, as speciied;

2. Aspiral wrapper for enveloping a clothbale while steaming the same, as specified.

LUKE M. HEERY.

Witnesses JAMES W. HEEEY, FRANK MAXWELL. 

